Literature Fellowships

Below is a list of all NEA Literature Fellowships awarded since 1965. You can search by year, name, or fellowship type (creative writing or translation). 

We also have sections where you can find out more information about some of the fellows. You can meet some of the fellows who received creative writing awards from 2001 to the present. You can meet some of the fellows who received translation awards from 2011 to the present.

Name Year Type Language
Brian Young 1995 Creative Writing
Leslie Brody 1981 Creative Writing
Philip Levine 1976 Creative Writing
Thomas Ireland 1995 Creative Writing
Ann Stanford 1982 Creative Writing
Freya Manfred 1977 Creative Writing
Charles Rossiter 1997 Creative Writing
Richard Price 1982 Creative Writing
Susan MacDonald 1977 Creative Writing
Elizabeth Inness-Brown 1983 Creative Writing
Jonathan Edward Greene 1978 Creative Writing
Marilyn Krysl 2000 Creative Writing
Susan Richards 1983 Creative Writing
Tom Thomas 1978 Creative Writing
Julia Randall Sawyer 1966 Creative Writing
Joyce Peseroff 1984 Creative Writing
John Latta 1979 Creative Writing
Gayle Gray 1968 Creative Writing
Thomas Swiss 1984 Creative Writing
Wesley McNair 1979 Creative Writing